Journal
BIOMATERIALS
Volume 61, Issue -, Pages 103-114Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2015.04.057
Keywords
Tissue Engineering; Humanized niche; Bone organ; Hematopoietic stem cells; Engraftment; Transplantation
Funding
- German Research Foundation [DFG HO 5068/1-1]
- Australian Research Council (Future Fellowship Program)
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [604303, 1044091, 2643688, 1082313, 1033736]
- Mater Foundation
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Advances in tissue-engineering have resulted in a versatile tool-box to specifically design a tailored microenvironment for hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in order to study diseases that develop within this setting. However, most current in vivo models fail to recapitulate the biological processes seen in humans. Here we describe a highly reproducible method to engineer humanized bone constructs that are able to recapitulate the morphological features and biological functions of the HSC niches. Ectopic implantation of biodegradable composite scaffolds cultured for 4 weeks with human mesenchymal progenitor cells and loaded with rhBMP-7 resulted in the development of a chimeric bone organ including a large number of human mesenchymal cells which were shown to be metabolically active and capable of establishing a humanized microenvironment supportive of the homing and maintenance of human HSCs. A syngeneic mouse-to-mouse transplantation assay was used to prove the functionality of the tissue-engineered ossicles. We predict that the ability to tissue engineer a morphologically intact and functional large-volume bone organ with a humanized bone marrow compartment will help to further elucidate physiological or pathological interactions between human HSCs and their native niches. Crown Copyright (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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